Rise of Rurik Chapter 785

Even if they rode a horse and shoot with a crossbow, they still need a lot of time to learn how to use the crossbow.

More than a crossbow, the subordinates used foot combat weapons, which were not suitable for riding and shooting weapons. It's like changing a rifle to a horse warfare because the barrel is too long and inappropriate. The improved carbines are all carbine, and the cavalry is equipped with Bobosha. The latter is naturally a good thing for Bujonni.

The crossbow equipped most in the Principality of Russ is a wooden arm. Except for the core bronze crossbow mechanism, the other parts are all kinds of wood.

Even if it is a short wooden bow, it is a 98 cm long wooden pole when the bowstring is removed. The crossbow made by it is too wide to look at. It is still very intrusive for horseback fighting, unless all the cubs use it. Attach a lightweight recurve bow.

Lurik immediately invented a way to deal with the trouble, which is to install a simple bracket on the right side of the saddle, so that the existing crossbow can be placed at an angle of 45°.

The bow arms of the wooden crossbows used for horse warfare must also be shortened, at least to 75% of the previous ones. The shoulder rest should also be cancelled, and the bundle should be a straight stick, which is convenient for riding and shooting even if it is suspended.

These improvements seem to be effective after preliminary experiments. In just two days, all 80 wooden-armed crossbows were cut into horse warfare styles.

The range of the standard light arrows they fired has not been shortened, although the draw distance has been shortened a lot, and the bow arm shape has also become larger. This is certainly not a good thing, the life of the short wooden bow at the core of the crossbow has been reduced.

Say a thousand words and ten thousand, what Rurik needs most is the Pecheneg's recurve compound bow.

It was another sunny and very cold morning, the cavalry training entered a new stage, and the grand festival of the Ross people was just around the corner.

Hanukkah is coming!

All people attach great importance to this festival, which is the "New Year's Eve and New Year's Day" of the Principality of Russia. All ethnic groups under the rule of the duchy must hold a grand ceremony on the winter solstice, and they think this is a new year's teaching. This custom is very similar in Pecheneg!

According to the agreement of the transaction, Kagan persuaded his subordinates to hand over thirty recurve bows. At first these slave warriors were very reluctant, Kagan comforted: "You will get the kind of horizontal crossbow. Although the ordinary carpenter of the Rus is very bad, their crossbow is really wonderful. Just go with them. Exchange, when you go back, the person who surrenders the bow will get a new one, and the crossbow will still belong to you."

All the brothers are convinced by this.

No one dislikes having too few bows. With one more crossbow, the brothers have one more choice.

The slave warriors noticed that the crossbow of the Ross people can make beginners become sharpshooters in a short time. With this thing, hunting marmots and foxes on the grassland will definitely become much easier.

But how does Kagan's pattern only have this point?

He couldn't understand the mechanical structure of the Russ crossbow machine, but he could understand how the bow arm was connected to the crossbow body. He couldn't help muttering: "I went back and took down your short wooden bows, installed the recurve bows and fixed them with glue and rope. Isn't it a good weapon? The slow rate of fire is nothing, my people have become gods. Archer. Magyar boys, I will teach you when the time comes and let you open your eyes."

Because the Pecheneg tribal alliance is facing quite dangerous international conflicts, they are really outsiders, and they are directly competing with the Magyar and Khazarians for the grassy lower Volga area. The dispute continues and maintains a dynamic balance. If one party has a better weapon, the balance of balance will be biased towards the one with advanced weapons.

Kagan is so refreshing that he feels he has gotten a big bargain.

Isn't it the case for Rurik?

The two brothers who got righteous each took what they had taken.

The combination of ribs and corners of the Pecheneg recurve bow is high-tech in materials science, and the mechanical structure of the cast bronze crossbow machine of the Rus is even high-tech. However, only in terms of the efficiency of production and manufacturing, the Russian crossbow machines are still highly productive.

On today's rest day, both the soldier and the good horse need to recuperate. Fighters have the right to eat and drink, especially holding the roasted deer legs and gnawing fiercely to ensure that the muscles can further expand and further enhance combat effectiveness. Horses should also be added to the meal. Five pounds of oats is not enough. The amount of feed is doubled, and more yellow carrots are added to supplement vitamins.

The reindeer sleigh was pulling some goods, and the materials were tightly bound by a piece of cloth.

Rurik himself took a handful of his men, and they walked firmly on the snow, stepping on firmly nailed wooden shoes.

The sleigh stopped in front of the barn where all the Pechenegs lived, and the noise of the outdoors attracted people from indoors.

Kagan had already negotiated with the brothers, and this enthusiasm walked out of the door, and opened his arms to show his good wishes to his brother.

"The weather today is good, it is a good day for trading. Look at my men, their bows are about to become your property. So..."

Rurik nodded in satisfaction and motioned for his men to lift the cloth on the sled.

In an instant, there was a dazzling array of neatly stacked wooden crossbows.

"Start the exchange now. Thirty crossbows are all yours."

"Thirty?" Kagan looked a little embarrassed, and he approached Rurik's body and couldn't help but smashed: "Brother, I changed my mind. Your crossbow is wonderful, since you can see my compound bow. Otherwise, we will expand the business, and I will exchange all forty bows with you in the same amount."

"Forty for forty?!"

Rurik couldn't help but stepped back, his face trembling violently. He quickly stabilized his emotions and agreed decisively.

Unexpectedly, Kagan was going to be so extreme. If this guy brought a hundred recurve bows, he wouldn't be able to sell all of them? "No, I have to control my emotions, and I can't let him see my greedy recurve bow." Rurik hurriedly controlled himself.

"That's the deal." Liurik held his head high, and after snapping his fingers, his subordinates sent a steel-armed crossbow as planned.

"What is this? It turned out to be a crossbow?!" Kagan was taken aback.

"This is my personal treasure as a gift to you. It is our best crossbow. Of course, the cost of manufacturing is astonishingly high. One bow is worth ten of you. I am now sending someone to get an extra ten wooden arm crossbow. Bow, take this opportunity. I! I can show you the use of this steel arm crossbow."

It's been almost two months since I have lived in Ross, and Kagan has never seen the steel arm version. He really doesn't understand, it is obvious that a piece of iron can be used as a bow?

He was surprised that this crossbow uses iron as its arms to be weird. One is equal to the price of ten recurve bows. Why is it so expensive?

What made him even more astonished was that special tools were used to wind this thing. The crossbow stepping on the winding Kagan is not surprising, the steel arm version of the forcible stepping is also possible, even if a strong man has done a few times, he will basically collapse, unless the winch tool is used.

The winding is so laborious, and the whole is quite cumbersome, how about shooting with it? If it doesn't work well, wouldn't it be a waste for a big price?

I saw a very short and thick arrow installed with an arrow slot. It was not even as long as a person's forearm, and even thicker than a person's thumb. Its arrow cluster was a slender pointed cone glowing with cold sunlight!

Seeing that the iron tie armor that the Pecheneg people took off was still hanging outdoors, Rurik just finished winding and pointed: "Brother Kagan, it looks like you put the armor as a dummy and placed it at the door. It is a kind of mighty force." Are you particular about it?"

"Of course. In the city, I understand that you don't let the brothers carry weapons. Anyway, you ordinary Russ are walking on the road and don't have weapons in your hands. I can only show our identity by putting on the armor."

"Because the city is a very safe place. Except for the soldiers on patrol and my guard, ordinary people don't need to take weapons to protect themselves. It doesn't matter." Rürik had an idea: "I need a target. Brother Kagan, believe it or not. I can pierce your armor with one arrow."

"Um?"

"One arrow pierces armor." Rurik emphasized further.

Rurik repeated it three times in a row, and Kagan was sure that he had heard it correctly, but the description of Prince Ross was clearly a fantasy.

The quality of Pecheneg's iron armor is naturally not good due to material limitations. A cavalry soldier wears hard cowhide armor on the inside and the armor on the outside. This warrior can prevent the enemy from riding the archer. Face shooting! Ordinary cavalry certainly cannot have such luxurious equipment. As the number one nobleman of the Khan family, Kagan is naturally given a good suit of armor to his private soldiers.

Kagan has plenty of self-confidence, and it just so happens that this is also an opportunity to prove that Pechenegger's armor is advanced.

"Okay! I let my subordinates wear leather armor, and then put on iron plates. Just shoot at him. If you can beat it, I lose."

What is the meaning of such reckless remarks and the Qin Wang's trip? Before Rurik had time to persuade him, Kagan summoned his men like a demon, and immediately the extremely proud Pecheneg warrior stood up, patted his chest and claimed that his armor was invincible in the world.

Rurik just glanced at it, and he kept moaning in his heart. A closer look at the so-called Zha armor is the series of iron pieces, like the scales of a carp, which are closely stacked, but even so, it can withstand the blow of the carbon steel armor-piercing arrow?

"This... isn't it right! If I accidentally kill your subordinates, I will blame myself."

"Brother, are you cowardly?" After that, Kagan laughed.

Soon there was a madman who quickly changed into leather armor and then put on the tie armor, pestering on the snow in the posture of horse riding.

The great nobles have to do a kind of "game", standing in the position of slave warriors, this is a shortcut to change their destiny, as the so-called wealth and wealth are in danger, some guys just want to try on their body armor, which is tantamount to the future. Khan Kagan is loyal.

Look at the Pechenegg warrior in armor and horse-staging, he has already imagined that he will become a general under the command of the Khan in the future.

This person is so proactive, what is it that is not provocative? !

Rurik didn't bother to be humble anymore, stomped his feet vigorously, with a murderous intent in his heart, and bluntly said in the Slavic language they understood: "Warrior! You might die! You could not die, all of this is your own choice. I respect you as a man, and if you die, you will be buried in the cemetery of our Russian soldiers."

Look at the Pechenegg warrior with both fists and smashed his chest: "This is my destiny, come on! It is also my honor to be killed by Ross Khan. But my noble armor can stop your noble arrows. "

Rurik looked at Kagan's determined and extremely expectant eyes again, and kept a distance of about 20 meters from the person trying the arrow. He knelt down and held the steel-armed crossbow, aiming and pulling the trigger.

With a crisp swish, the slender cone of the sharp carbon steel armor-piercing arrow directly penetrated the person's abdomen, or that most of the arrow clusters about 10 cm have been buried in.

The man screamed and was knocked down by the powerful kinetic energy, and then rolled around his stomach, blood oozing out.

Kagan was stunned by all this, the onlookers rushed up, and even Rurik dropped the crossbow.

Kagan, who knelt down in a hurry, was shocked by the scene in front of him, and the narrow and long arrow cluster was almost completely buried in it. It ignored the iron armor and leather armor, and plunged deeply into the warrior's stomach.

"I have been merciful." Lurik said with a wooden face, "If I shoot him in the heart, he will die."

"You!" Kagan gritted his teeth, "You might as well kill him directly. Hit him in the stomach, and he will die extremely painfully from a severe fever."

At this moment, just listen to the painful Pechenegg soldier yelling: "Kill me. I lost, I should die!"

The success of this arrow pierced the armor, but it gave Kagan an inexplicable shock. He really pulled out his own meat-cutting knife, and wanted to hit his subordinates with a stab at the neck to complete the "willing to bet." However, he was still an assistant by grasping the handle of the knife, instead, he turned his face and said, "Rurik, you..."

"Could it be that I just leave him alone?"

"Can you? He is a reckless man, I want him to live. You can give him death, and you can give him life!"

"Yes." Rurik still remained calm: "We Ross people have some advanced medical skills, but whether he can survive or not depends on..."

Rurik paused deliberately, and deliberately said with an idea: "You are already in Odin's domain. Whether this person can survive depends on the will of God. Kagan, you and I continue to trade, and you have also seen it. I will give you the power of this crossbow."

On the other hand, Kagan, he was not happy with the killer weapon, but was deeply shocked. Facing this weapon that destroyed the brothers' belief in the defense of iron armor, how could he be happy?

He shivered again and rejoiced. Fortunately, the Duchy of Ross was in the far north, and it would take three months to reach Ross at the earliest! Fortunately, Pechenegger and Ross are a substantial alliance, and fortunately that he and the Duke of Ross are brothers of righteousness.

If the person who shot them is really going to create a rift in the newly established friendship, from the amazing performance of Kagan later, Rurik can see that this person actually values ​​his subordinates, even if they are all slaves. warrior. So it seems that mercy is the right choice.

Soon ~www.mtlnovel.com~ The transaction of crossbow for recurve bow was successfully completed.

Perhaps the act of a reckless man trying his arrows can turn into a good thing?

There is currently no real hospital in the Principality of Ross, and the priests take on the duties of doctors and nurses.

Ordinary people do not experience severe colds on weekdays, and the most common one is still diarrhea caused by eating a bad stomach. With the improvement of the sanitation level of the entire Principality, the common diseases in the past have been reduced too much, the infant mortality rate has plummeted, and the life expectancy of the elderly is still increasing.

As people have to perform heavy physical labor, the number of people seeking medical care due to bruises has increased.

In the era when the Rus tribe lived in the fjord, the priests took on the work of curing diseases. Of course, the treatment was mixed with too many witchcraft elements, and whether it had to depend mainly on good fortune.

The situation has changed significantly now!

Because the Principality of Ross has already set off a revolution in surgery! In principle, it is not a routine with the Frankish kingdom.

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